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Afya (AFYA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

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$15.50 +0.26 (+1.71%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:15 PM ET)

About Afya Stock (NASDAQ:AFYA)

Key Stats

Today's Range
$15.19
$15.74
50-Day Range
$14.58
$18.09
52-Week Range
$14.52
$22.48
Volume
118,410 shs
Average Volume
131,570 shs
Market Capitalization
$1.45 billion
P/E Ratio
12.50
Dividend Yield
N/A
Price Target
$19.38
Consensus Rating
Reduce

Company Overview

Afya Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as a medical education group in Brazil. The company operates through three segments: Undergrad, Continuing Education, and Digital Services. It offers educational products and services, including medical schools, medical residency preparatory courses, graduate courses, and other programs to lifelong medical learners enrolled across its distribution network, as well as to third-party medical schools. The company also provides digital health services, such as subscription-based mobile app and website portal that focuses on assisting health professionals and students with clinical decision-making through tools, such as medical calculators, charts, and updated content, as well as prescriptions, clinical scores, medical procedures and laboratory exams, and others. It offers health sciences courses, which comprise medicine, dentistry, nursing, radiology, psychology, pharmacy, physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, and biomedicine; and degree programs and courses in other subjects and disciplines, including undergraduate and post graduate courses in business administration, accounting, law, civil engineering, industrial engineering, and pedagogy. In addition, the company provides medical postgraduate specialization programs; printed and digital content; and an online medical education platform and practical medical training services. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Nova Lima, Brazil.

Afya Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

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52nd Percentile Overall Score

AFYA MarketRank™: 

Afya scored higher than 52% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 175th out of 287 stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

  • Consensus Rating

    Afya has received a consensus rating of Reduce. The company's average rating score is 1.75, and is based on no buy ratings, 3 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

  • Amount of Analyst Coverage

    Afya has only been the subject of 1 research reports in the past 90 days.

  • Read more about Afya's stock forecast and price target.
  • Earnings Growth

    Earnings for Afya are expected to grow by 25.66% in the coming year, from $1.52 to $1.91 per share.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

    The P/E ratio of Afya is 12.50, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 113.42.

  • Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

    The P/E ratio of Afya is 12.50, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Discretionary sector average P/E ratio of about 18.33.

  • Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

    Afya has a PEG Ratio of 0.33. PEG Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued.

  • Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

    Afya has a P/B Ratio of 1.99. P/B Ratios below 3 indicates that a company is reasonably valued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

  • Read more about Afya's valuation and earnings.
  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    7.47% of the float of Afya has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    Afya has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 8.3.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in Afya has recently increased by 8.52%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.
  • Dividend Yield

    Afya does not currently pay a dividend.

  • Dividend Growth

    Afya does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

  • Percentage of Shares Shorted

    7.47% of the float of Afya has been sold short.
  • Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

    Afya has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 8.3.
  • Change versus previous month

    Short interest in Afya has recently increased by 8.52%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.
  • News Sentiment

    Afya has a news sentiment score of 0.19. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.60 average news sentiment score of Consumer Discretionary companies.
  • News Coverage This Week

    MarketBeat has tracked 6 news articles for Afya this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.
  • Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

    In the past three months, Afya insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.

  • Percentage Held by Insiders

    Only 0.80% of the stock of Afya is held by insiders.

  • Percentage Held by Institutions

    88.02% of the stock of Afya is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

  • Read more about Afya's insider trading history.
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AFYA Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

Afya's stock was trading at $21.93 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, AFYA stock has decreased by 29.3% and is now trading at $15.50.
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Afya Limited (NASDAQ:AFYA) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 26th. The company reported $1.16 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.56 by $0.40. The business earned $72.15 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $72.96 million. Afya had a net margin of 18.42% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.15%.
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Afya (AFYA) raised $233 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, July 19th 2019. The company issued 13,700,000 shares at $16.00-$18.00 per share. BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, UBS Investment Bank, Itaú BBA, Morgan Stanley, BTG and Pactual XP Investments acted as the underwriters for the IPO.

Afya's top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (2.79%), Bamco Inc. NY (2.70%), Perpetual Ltd (0.48%) and State Street Corp (0.08%).

Shares of AFYA stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Afya investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Broadcom (AVGO), Meta Platforms (META), ServiceNow (NOW), Arista Networks (ANET), Adobe (ADBE) and CrowdStrike (CRWD).

Company Calendar

Last Earnings
5/26/2021
Today
12/22/2024
Next Earnings (Confirmed)
12/31/2024
Fiscal Year End
12/31/2024

Industry, Sector and Symbol

Industry
Educational services
Sub-Industry
Personal Services
Current Symbol
NASDAQ:AFYA
Fax
N/A
Employees
9,680
Year Founded
N/A

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Target
$19.38
High Stock Price Target
$23.00
Low Stock Price Target
$16.00
Potential Upside/Downside
+25.0%
Consensus Rating
Reduce
Rating Score (0-4)
1.75
Research Coverage
4 Analysts

Profitability

Net Income
$77.38 million
Pretax Margin
19.38%

Debt

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales
$3.19 billion
Cash Flow
$1.71 per share
Book Value
$7.79 per share

Miscellaneous

Free Float
92,973,000
Market Cap
$1.45 billion
Optionable
Optionable
Beta
0.89

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This page (NASDAQ:AFYA) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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